Posted on 01/25/2016 6:23:31 PM PST by Kaslin
Blaming 'oversight' and the blizzard that hit Washington, D.C., the State Department on Friday sought to delay the release of the last batch of 55,000 emails scheduled for Jan. 29. But the journalist who forced the State Department to release them to begin with is having none of it.
Lawyers for Vice News reporter Jason Leopold filed a motion on Monday in an attempt to prevent the Department's request to extend the deadline until Feb. 29, conveniently after the first four state nominating contests.
<The Obama administration "has failed to show good cause for the requested extension, that it is necessary or that the interests of justice will be served by granting it," Leopold's lawyers wrote in the 13-page filing.
The government's excuse for not being able to release the final batch of emails this month "is woefully vague," the lawyers said. […]
In the filing on Monday, Leopold’s lawyers, Ryan James and Jeffrey Light, wondered whether the final tranche of emails contained "the most controversial records."
Delaying release of the emails beyond the first four primary states would cause "irrevocable harm" to journalists and voters, they added.
"[I]f the Court allows State to delay release of thousands of pages of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's official work emails, a substantial portion of the electorate will be forced to vote without the benefit of important information to which it is entitled about the performance of one of the candidates for U.S. President while serving as Secretary of State," the lawyers wrote.
The State Department said they would release some of the documents by the original Jan. 29 deadline, but an “internal oversight†caused them to miss 7,200 emails and there was not enough time to send them to other agencies to review for potential redactions, a spokesman claimed. The Department also blamed the storm, saying on Friday that it would "disrupt the Clinton email team's current plans to work a significant number of hours throughout the upcoming weekend."
A number of Republicans were critical of the State Department seeking to delay the release of the final batch of emails.
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said it was the Obama administration's way of helping Clinton in the early primary elections.
"It's clear that the State Department's delay is all about ensuring any further damaging developments in Hillary Clinton's email scandal are revealed only after the votes are counted in the early nominating states," Priebus said in a statement on Friday.
"A ruling in favor of this blatant attempt to shield Hillary Clinton from accountability would further erode trust in our political system."
How does one block a delay?
You simply delay and apologize.
I asked this earlier and I apologize but WHO WAS THE JUDGE APPOINTED BY? that is it in a nut shell.
I didn’t know there was something above Top Secret. I thought top was top!
Hillary, in response to this story, claims the ‘above top secret’ info was a New York Times article.
Really. That’s what she said.
Her lying lacks the art of her husband’s. I’m anticipating indictment, she steps aside, and Zero pardons her on the way out.
The dog ate my emails.
The Motion anx Brief make too much sense to work.
They want to delay delay delay... until such time that they switch their argument to “can’t release now, wouldn’t want to overly impact the election”.
There are many levels above TS. Held mulptiple.
U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras, appointed by Obama.
Thank you so much!! Well let’s guess at the vote of this judge on the political email delay. Phone calls have been made on untraceable satellite phones to this political hack judge TODAY!! . The answer is that the ugly emails will not be released until two years from now. What a freaking joke.
BUILD THE TRUMP WALL and clean out these crap judges!!
I guess “mulptiple” is the highest level of all, so high even the name is encrypted.
They want to present her nomination as a fait accompli, thus preventing prosecution.
Anyone who is targeted by the Feds after this should just declare their own political party, nominate themselves as president, and claim immunity from prosecution.
I used to have a clearance above Top Secret as well. Mine was a compartmentalized clearance with strictly a need to know and I only knew a little about my own program.
I read that CONGRESS can’t even read some of the emails. Congressmen on the committee overseeing these agencies can’t read it, but it was on a home brew server in her bathroom for China, Russia, North Korea...
Except none of us knew what anyone else was doing. I mean that my best office mate had no idea of what I was working on. No idea whatsoever, and I hadn't a clue about his work.
All classified information is "need to know." I can almost guarantee that the staffers who were cutting and pasting from the classified server would not pass "need to know" scrutiny. They may not even have had the clearance.
I suspect the evidence will be damning. I also suspect Hillary will throw her staff under the bus. So, which ones of those will be loyal enough to go to prison for her?
A delay in sending to other agencies? Its an email and should have been done long ago.
They have to read them all, then decide which ones have to vanish.
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